[ECOS] Ethernet on redboot

Gary Thomas gthomas@redhat.com
Tue Dec 11 09:36:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 09:56, Daniel.Andersson@combitechsystems.com
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently porting redboot to a board called TQM850 and have used the
> existing MBX860 port as a base. 
> 
> Right now i am working with the ethernet part and i don't seem to get ping
> to work - not even the default ip works: "ping -h 127.0.0.1". What can be
> the problem here?

RedBoot does not support a loopback interface (this doesn't make much 
sense for a bootstrap loader).

What happens if you turn on network debugging?  You can do this via 
'fconfig' or just hard-wire it in redboot/src/net/net_io.c




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